Automobile-fender package



Jn. 99 1923. l 1,441,264. A H. BRUEWER. AUTOMOBILE FENDER PACKAGE.

FILED DEC. 12. 192'1.

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Patented Jan. 9, 1923.

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HARRY BRUEWER, or nonwoon, OHIO, Assis-Non 'IO THE oonoonnnfivrnnUrnc- TUBING COMPANY, or NORWOOD, OHIO, A CORPORATION on OHIO.

AUTOMOBILE-FENDER PACKAGE.

i Application filed December 12, 1921. Serial No. 521,602.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY BRUEWER, a

Vi citizen of the United States, and a resident of Norwood, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Automobile- Fender Package, of which the following isa ful1,-clear, and Vexact description, reference being 'had to the accompanying drawings, forming-part of this specication.

My invention relates to devices or methods for shippingl fenders for automobiles, partic- 4' ularly for'Ford automobiles.l

The' problem iny shipping a set of four fenders is Athat the crates are of such size, as ordinarily made up, that a comparatively v fewaof them take up a `full freight car,

wherefore `the price of car shipment is in excess vof what it should be, since the carload offenders is well below the weight covered by the minimum carload price. Referring to figures on present day carload shipmentsof packages of four 'fenders ina single Acrate,'I' find lthat packed in rectangular crates there may be between sixtyeght and seventy cratesof yfenders placed in one thirty-six foot car, although the total weight of the fenders and crates is under half what would be possible to place in the car at the minimum carload rates.

It is the object of my invention to provide a diicrent forni of package for fenders, which package is capable of a partial nesting. By the exact form to be later described, I nd' that I can get one hundred and thirtysix crates into a car instead of sixty-eight to seventy. These igures relate to Ford car fenders, and would have to be modified fo other shapes and sizes.

I accomplish the said object by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of one of my new packages.

Figure 2 is a side elevation showing the method of nesting the packages when placing them in a car.

. Ihave shown the invention as applied to the fenders for Ford cars, because more Ford fenders are shipped than any other kind, and because the price atkk point of deliveryl is more important than for fenders in other kinds of cars. f e

I wishv it distinctly understood, however,

`that my invention will apply to fender-packages generally, since all'fenders have the common characteristics of being longer forl the front set than the rear set, which feature is taken advantage of in my invention.

Referring directly to the drawings, I have shown as a desirable form of openwork crate, a' structure having a long rectangular'portion formed of lengthwise boards l, together with suitable cross boards. 2 of less length than the boards 1 are combined together with thecross boards 3 to make up ,a section of the crate of lessheight than the long portion.

*The length of the long portion is suchr as to receive both of the ront fenders, these A set of 'boards' being shown at t and ta, respectivelv, and

set into the long portion of the ycrate with whatwill be the forward ends of each fender extending toward the bottom lof. the crate. yIhe fenders are, of course, a left and a right, which is also the case with the rear fenders.

The rear. fenders-are set intothe crates with the one fender 5 having what will be its rearmost end down, and the other fender 5 with its like endup.

Looking at the crate from the side, the long front fenders are set with their faces to the rear of the crate, while the rear fenders are set with their faces to the side of the crate. The arrangement of fenders is thus a saving'of space since'the curves of front and rear fenders are arranged to be parallel with each other, and curves of the rear pair are at right angles to the curves of the fronty pair.

Since the long fenders may be placed together closely and the rear or sl'nrter fenders the same, they may be readily; set into the crate, and the crate nailed op so as to produce a package, half of which isconsiderably longer thanfthe other half.

As shown in Figure 2, the crates are set into'a car with the upper crates inverted and the long portions set into the space left by the short portions of the cratevbeneath.

The cost of shipping Ford yfenders 'for any'distance has made it possible for cm1- cerns having low production cost beer-.isc of quantity production to compete with local concerns in distant markets.

As a result of the use of my invention as compared with the old rectangular crates,

l ain enabled at present freight rates i'or carload shipments or' tenders to save about eighty-nine cents per set on shipments Jfrom Cincinnati to N ew York, one dollar and fourteen cents per set on' shipments rorn Cincinnati to Yew Orleans, and three doilars and nineteen cents per set on shipments to San Francisco.

This saving is a very large item in the fender business, particularly for Ford cars, since the ,price of fenders is very low and requires the closest economy in production and transportation cost.

There has been no attempt by me to describe the possible modifications of the package above described without departing troni the spirit oi the invention therein, but l wish to include such modifications as being within the scope of said invention, particularly where the Inodications are merely to adapt the package to different sizes ot tenders.

Having thus described my invention, what l cla-iin as new and desire to secure bv Letters Patent, is

l; A fender package comprising iront Aand rear fenders, and a crate or the like` surrounding the same, said crate having a long portion for the front tenders and a short portion for the rear fenders, whereby the finished package presents a space alongside the long portion tor nesting of packages in shipment.

2. A fender package comprising a pair of front and a pair ot rear tenders, said front and rear fenders arranged with the curves thereof lying parallel for each pair and a crate having a long portion in which is housed the pair of front tenders, and a short portion in which is housed the pair oi.l rear'i'enders, whereby the iinished package presents a space alongside the long portion for nesting of packages in shipment.

3. A tender package comprising a pair o front and a. pair of rear fenders, said front and rear fenders arranged with the curves ther-ect lying parallel for each pair, and the rear pair turned at right angles to the front pair, and a crate yhaving a long por-4 tion in which the iront pair is housed, and a short portion in which the rear pair is housed, whereby the linishe'd package presents a space alongside the long portion for nesting oi packages in shipment.

4. A tender package comprising front and rear fenders, and a crate or the like surrounding the same, said crate having a long portion for the front fenders and a short portion ior the rear fenders, whereby the finished package presents a space alongside the long portion for nesting of packages in shipment,` said crate being so proportioned that the short and long portions are of equal cross sectional area, so that the longrr portion of one crate may be set into the space of another crate inverted with relationto it. HARRY BRUEVVER. 

